conficio

“_Caussurum illustrium quascunque defendi nunc cum maxime conficio orationes_," [11] and these written speeches were no doubt improvements on those actually delivered, especially as Valerius Maximus says of his literary labours, [12] "_Cato Graecis literis erudiri concupivit, quam sero inde cognoscimus quod etiam Latinas paene iam senex didicerit.”

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius